Though often underrated, she manages to be believable in almost every role she plays, without using terrible movie accents à la Meryl Streep or other stunts; and at over fourty years of age (and twenty of acting career), she still retains her sex symbolstatus and crowd attracting skills.

She has also played animal-related roles several times. The most famous is Catwoman in Batman Returns, but a cat is not the best animal for her. She was much more believable as the one who started to transform without being bitten in Wolf with Jack Nicholson. She was also good as a hawk in Ladyhawke.